Uniqlo @ Pinterest – Uniqlo, the Japanese casual apparel retailer recently “took over” Social Media Site Pinterest with a number of shell accounts to draw attention to their new release of mesh products. Pinterest uses an endless scrolling format on their pages, and Uniqlo built a playful sort of animation visible as users scrolled down the page. Clever and artistic stunt to garner attention in a non-traditional manner in a non-traditional channel.

Falling SSD Costs – I’ve been getting more and more inquiries on the potential of leveraging Solid State Drive (SSD) versus Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology for data storage on POS systems. The costs of SSD have been dropping for years. Seems like the drop is getting even more precipitous. Hopefully we can look forward to the speed and reliability of SSD at a reasonable price in the very near future.

Pickie – I’m not sure if we can handle yet another social media channel, but here is another one of interest to retailers. Pickie is a customized magazine that shows products based on your social media feeds. You need a Facebook account to get an invite for the limited beta. Social Media is increasingly being leveraged to sell to us. While it could work, it makes you wonder if you want all your friends to run out and buy all the gear you lust over.